Full Scale Multirotor Receives Experimental Airworthiness Certificate from the FAA

After 78 years, the helicopter has been reinvented. SureFly is a personal full-scale helicopter/VTOL aircraft designed for safe and easy flight.

I was in a discussion with the RCGroups team and said that there had to be a full scale multirotor out there by now that we could fly in. Jason Cole replied with a link to the SureFly. $200,000 seems like a pretty good price to make a dream come true.
NOTE - I have literally dreamed that I had a personal multirotor that I could travel in.

From Workhorse

The time has come. After 78 years, the helicopter has been reinvented. SureFly is a personal helicopter/VTOL aircraft designed for safe and easy flight. With eight independent motors each driving a single carbon fiber propeller, a backup battery power system, and a ballistic parachute to safely land in the event of an emergency, the SureFly provides unparalleled safety for a personal aircraft.

SureFly is changing the helicopter industry. Now is the time to discover the affordable, easy-to-pilot, safe answer to personal flight.

"Workhorse Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WKHS), an American technology company focused on providing sustainable and cost-effective electric mobility solutions to the commercial transportation sector, today announced it has received an Experimental Airworthiness Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will allow the company to conduct test flights of its SureFly™ electric hybrid helicopter. Workhorse announced that it intends to spin off its SureFly business into a separate publicly traded company called SureFly, Inc."

Not a good undercarriage design, all that triangulation will make it strong but also very stiff...too stiff.
Sometimes innovators get very tied up in the new stuff they are dealing with and forget some basics

Not a good undercarriage design, all that triangulation will make it strong but also very stiff...too stiff.
Sometimes innovators get very tied up in the new stuff they are dealing with and forget some basics

That said I wish them well.

Probably a bunch of young engineers without a lot of (any?) practical experience. They're really fine engineers, but what looks good on paper (or CAD) doesn't work as well as they expect, but by the time they realize that, it is too late to change it. I see that often.

Seems like there would be a fair decrease in efficiency if you are going from gas to electric to a battery to a motor. However, it is much simpler than the mechanical design to drive eight props in that arrangement mechanically and have power transfer in the case of a failure.

In the video the thing has different landing gear which looks more like typical heli struts. Also, seems they need a DJI flight controller to get the thing off the ground level. Looks like it wants to roll right all the time.

Probably a bunch of young engineers without a lot of (any?) practical experience. They're really fine engineers, but what looks good on paper (or CAD) doesn't work as well as they expect, but by the time they realize that, it is too late to change it. I see that often.

Seems like there would be a fair decrease in efficiency if you are going from gas to electric to a battery to a motor. However, it is much simpler than the mechanical design to drive eight props in that arrangement mechanically and have power transfer in the case of a failure.

In the video the thing has different landing gear which looks more like typical heli struts. Also, seems they need a DJI flight controller to get the thing off the ground level. Looks like it wants to roll right all the time.

I think for concept the gear was made in a box configuration for ease of design and manufacturing, plus its cheap. As the design matures I am sure so will the gear and fuse. The test pilot was simply feeling out the controls which is pretty normal for a test flight such as this. I really like the idea of a hybrid system which helps in regards to range and safety.

Not a good undercarriage design, all that triangulation will make it strong but also very stiff...too stiff.
Sometimes innovators get very tied up in the new stuff they are dealing with and forget some basics